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Events | Seminars 2010

Wednesday March 17

Dr Peter Smith (Cambridge University)

Squeezing Church's Thesis Again

In the very last chapter of my Introduction to Gödel’s Theorems, I claimed that there is a sense in which we can informally prove Church's Thesis. This is very much the minority line. In this talk I take a fresh look at the arguments in favour of my claim in an effort to get clearer about the nature and prospects of so-called squeezing arguments. 

The Philosophy seminars are held in Burns 4 at 11am on Wednesdays (unless otherwise stated). The session normally runs for one and a half hours.

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2010 Seminar Schedule

March 3

Charles Pigden

Otago

A 'Sensible Knave':

Hume, Jane Austen & Mr Eliott

March 10 William Lycan

Chapel Hill

Desire Considered as a Propositional Attitude

March 17

Peter Smith

Cambridge

Squeezing Church's Thesis Again

March 24

William Lycan

Chapel Hill

TBA

March 31

Greg Dawes

Otago

The Rationality of Renaissance Magic
April 5-9

 

Mid-Semester Break :

8 April Special Seminar - Dr Graham Oddie (Colorado University): Value Theory

 

 

April 14

 

 
April 21

 

 

 

April 28

 

 

 

May 5

 

 

 

May 12

Several Seminars

 

TBA

May 19

 

 

 

May 26
June 7- July 11

 

Semester Break

 

July 14

 

 
July 21
July 28
Melbourne
TBA
August 4  
August 11
Arizona
TBA
August 18
August 25
August 30 - Sept. 3

 

Mid-Semester Break

 

September 8

 

 

 

September 15

Ralph Wedgewood

Oxford

TBA

September 22

 

 

 

September 29

 

 

 

October 6

John Bigelow

Monash

TBA

October 13  

 

October 15
End of Classes

Please note, this timetable is subject to change

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